Villager from Surjagad say, as others begin their tale of the "laal jeher (red venom)" infiltrating their agricultural lands and turning their streams blood red.
The recent glacier-lake outburst which destroyed the Chungthang dam in Sikkim, a critical part of the Teesta-III hydropower project on River Teesta, laid bare the lacunae in India’s mega power projects in the fragile Himalayas.